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Gemican Themes

Description

`gemican-themes` is a command line tool for managing themes for Gemican. See settings/themes for settings related to themes.

Usage

gemican-themes [-h] [-l] [-i theme path [theme path ...]]
               [-r theme name [theme name ...]]
               [-s theme path [theme path ...]] [-v]
               [--version]

Optional arguments:

-h, --help                                Show the help an exit

-l, --list                                Show the themes already installed

-i theme_path, --install theme_path       One or more themes to install

-r theme_name, --remove theme_name        One or more themes to remove

-s theme_path, --symlink theme_path       Same as "--install", but create a
                                          symbolic link instead of copying the
                                          theme.
                                          Useful for theme development

-v, --verbose                             Verbose output

--version                                 Print the version of this script

Examples

Listing the installed themes

With `gemican-themes`, you can see the available themes by using the `-l` or `--list` option:

$ gemican-themes -l
hyper
two-column@
simple
$ gemican-themes --list
hyper
two-column@
simple

In this example, we can see there are three themes available: `hyper`, `simple`, and `two-column`.

`two-column` is prefixed with an `@` because this theme is not copied to the Gemican theme path, but is instead just linked to it (see `Creating symbolic links` for details about creating symbolic links).

Note that you can combine the `--list` option with the `-v` or `--verbose` option to get more verbose output, like this:

$ gemican-themes -v -l
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gemican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/gemican/themes/hyper
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gemican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/gemican/themes/two-column (symbolic link to `/home/skami/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/two-column`)
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gemican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/gemican/themes/simple

Installing themes

You can install one or more themes using the `-i` or `--install` option. This option takes as argument the path(s) of the theme(s) you want to install, and can be combined with the verbose option:

# gemican-themes --install ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/hyper-cms --verbose

# gemican-themes --install ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/hyper-cms\
                           ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/martyalchin \
                           --verbose

# gemican-themes -vi ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/two-column

Removing themes

The `gemican-themes` command can also remove themes from the Gemican themes path. The `-r` or `--remove` option takes as argument the name(s) of the theme(s) you want to remove, and can be combined with the `--verbose` option.

# gemican-themes --remove two-column

# gemican-themes -r martyachin hyper-cmd -v

Creating symbolic links

`gemican-themes` can also install themes by creating symbolic links instead of copying entire themes into the Gemican themes path.

To symbolically link a theme, you can use the `-s` or `--symlink`, which works exactly as the `--install` option:

# gemican-themes --symlink ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/two-column

In this example, the `two-column` theme is now symbolically linked to the Gemican themes path, so we can use it, but we can also modify it without having to reinstall it after each modification.

This is useful for theme development:

$ sudo gemican-themes -s ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/two-column
$ gemican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ firefox /tmp/out/index.gmi
$ vim ~/Dev/Gemican/gemican-themes/two-column/static/css/main.css
$ gemican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ cp /tmp/bg.png ~/Dev/Gemican/gemican-themes/two-column/static/img/bg.png
$ gemican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ vim ~/Dev/Gemican/gemican-themes/two-column/templates/index.gmi
$ gemican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column

Doing several things at once

The `--install`, `--remove` and `--symlink` option are not mutually exclusive, so you can combine them in the same command line to do more than one operation at time, like this:

# gemican-themes --remove hyper-cms two-column \
                 --install ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/hyper-cms-fr \
                 --symlink ~/Dev/Python/gemican-themes/two-column \
                 --verbose

In this example, the theme `hyper-cms` is replaced by the theme `hyper-cms-fr`

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